Electronic Frontier FoundationAge verification risks tying users’ “most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity, EFF’s Molly Buckley told CNBC. “Age verification strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet.” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦@eff
It's not about "protecting the children," it's about keeping track of you online. I cannot understand the party of "background checks for guns are an invasion of privacy" being ok with giving over their ID to Discord or PornHub.
There are other, more effective, ways, with less privacy risk, of limiting access to things for minors (I'm not necessarily in favor of that to begin with, but that's a different topic) without giving your ID over to a website which will definitely be breached.